Posted on 12/19/2024 5:40:25 AM PST by Rummyfan
Is there a politician more sanctimonious, more smug, than Ireland’s president, Michael D Higgins? His pompous scolding of Israel this week after it had the temerity to call out the anti-Israel animus of the Irish elites was a truly unedifying spectacle of false virtue and cant. Shaking with fury, every word bitterly spat out, he said it is a ‘gross defamation and slander’ to ‘brand a people’ anti-Semitic just because they ‘criticise Benjamin Netanyahu’. He seemed to be in the grip of a paroxysm of pique. I’ve never seen him quake and froth like this over anything else: not poverty, not homelessness, not war. Well, unless it’s a war being fought by Israel.
It’s hard to decide what was most grating in Higgins’s theatre of fury, which, as he knows, will have been lapped up by every scribe at the Irish Times, every patron of the wine bars of Dublin 4, every rich kid in a keffiyeh at Trinity. Let’s start with the fact that his windy invective was in large part misinformation. Israel has not accused the Irish people of anti-Semitism. It has accused ‘the Irish government’ of pursuing ‘extreme anti-Israel policies’. That’s why it took the decision to shut its embassy in Dublin: not because it thinks every Irishman is a Jew-hater but because it thinks Ireland’s ruling class is possessed of a curious abhorrence for the Jewish nation. Imagine accusing Israel of ‘slander’ even as you wilfully twist its words.
Then there’s the sanctimony. Higgins reaches for the smelling salts when an uppity nation like Israel has the brass neck to accuse people like him of possibly being bigots, yet he’s more than happy to make that accusation against others. The Irish establishment loves nothing more than pontificating on the pox of racism in modern Ireland....
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Ireland, England and Scotland.
Don’t go there on vacation if you were thinking about it.
If I remember right, before it’s over Israel will stand alone ... except for God ... poor Israel.
I have become ashamed of my Irish heritage.
Ireland, England and Scotland. Don’t go there on vacation if you were thinking about it.
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if you do, bring your own food.
Decent article. Thanks for posting it.
Londonistan?
Hell No!
The Irish IRA went to the same Marxist training camps in Libya that the Palestinian PLA terrorists went to. It’s the revolution man, you bourgeoise , to the reeducation camp with you.
Irland’s IRA worked with Arafat’s PLO Islamist terrorist organization. A pure infamy.
England outside of London is generally OK.
Scotland is fine but avoid all towns larger than 50k.
Ireland is a lost cause, I’m afraid.
I say this as someone who is mainly Norse of different varieties but with an Irish surname whose family bled green for some reason.
Way too many “dreamers” have invaded the so called United Kingdom, Ireland and Scotland. What hurts the most is the cucks like Higgins who will do, say and be whatever it takes to keep his office..
The BIG question is, when will the next “Crusades” start.? Or, is it ever lastingly too late..
Ireland is a dark, empty and backward place. Most anyone with brains has left there over the generations.
I am reminded that Irish President Eamon De Valera sent a note of condolence to Nazi Germany upon learning of Adolf Hitler’s death.
The Irish haven’t exactly covered themselves with glory here.
Good article.
Catholics have always hated Jews.
It’s not that the Irish love the Nazis as much as they HATE the English and especially the crown. So anyone that threatens to destroy England and kill the Royal family is basically their ally.
The goobers in charge of Ireland are compromised by MI5 and are just there to screw the Irish people by diluting them with Muslims. Essentially doing what they tried in the past by offering Protestant English and Scottish citizens land in Ireland to out breed them and try to starve them off their island.
A smart Irishman will figure it out and then the troubles will look like Disneyland. Cuz the Irish know how to do 4 things very well….. not in this order
Laugh, Drink, F$@k and Hate. They don’t forgive or forget and hold grudges for generation upon generation.
Freepers are obsessed over all things Jewish
He is a racist piece of shite. Condemns native Irish while welcoming invaders.
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